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Duns Sco⋅tus

[duhnz skoh-tuhs]
–noun
John (“Doctor Subtilis”), 1265?–1308, Scottish scholastic theologian.
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Duns Sco·tus   (dŭnz skō'təs)   
Scottish Franciscan friar, philosopher, and theologian whose commentary on Lombard's Sentences challenged influential doctrines of Aquinas, including his optimistic view of reason's ability to attain truth about the divine.
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